Transcriber's Notes:
Reading edition
This story was originally serialized in the New York Fireside Companion story paper from December 19, 1891 to April 16, 1892.
Thanks to Deidre Johnson, Joseph Rainone and Northern Illinois University for assistance in locating story paper installments in order to restore text omitted from the Westbrook edition.
Some inconsistent hyphenation retained (e.g. bedroom vs. bed-room).
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Page 3, changed "Darrel" to "Darrell" (twice).
Page 5, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
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Page 11, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed "heydey" to "heyday."
Page 12, changed "drooping lips" to "drooping lids."
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Page 28, changed ? to ! after "having saved your life."
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Page 40, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed single quote to double quote after "again."
Page 43, changed comma to period after "getting off, sir."
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Page 46, restored omitted poetry from Fireside Companion version.
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Page 53, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and added missing second "for" to "after being vainly looked for for more than two days."
Page 57, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and removed unnecessary comma after "throwing."
Page 63, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 66, changed period to comma in "Now, listen to me."
Page 70, the Westbrook edition was missing the poetry from Daisy Lynn's book. This text has been restored from the original Fireside Companion serialization along with the chapter head poem.
Page 73, changed "Watnut" to "Walnut."
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Page 89, removed unnecessary comma from "dry, eyes."
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Page 93, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed "recontre" to "rencontre."
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Page 101, the Westbrook edition was missing the word "put" in "put me into a lunatic asylum." The word has been restored by checking the original Fireside Companion appearance of the text.
Page 102, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version; in Fireside Companion, this chapter is entitled "TURNED OUT INTO THE STORM TO PERISH."
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Page 113, restored poetry and introductory paragraph ("Some burning words...") from Fireside Companion version.
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Page 118, changed "grimmace" to "grimace."
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Page 124, restored lengthy passage of Teddy reading poetry from Fireside Companion version; removed unnecessary comma in "Teddy Darrell, came."
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Page 146, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed "money-moon" to "honey-moon."
Page 147, restored two omitted poems from the Fireside Companion version.
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Page 173, the Westbrook edition omits some poetry on this page; it has been restored from the original Fireside Companion appearance.
Page 175, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 179, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed "a animated" to "an animated."
Page 180, restored poetry and introductory paragraph ("Some touching verses...") omitted from the Westbrook edition.
Page 181, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 184, restored start-of-chapter poem found in Fireside Companion edition but omitted from Westbrook reprint.
Page 185, restored poetry omitted from Westbrook edition.
Page 188, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 189, removed unnecessary comma after "romantic heart."
Page 192, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 194, changed period to comma after "Never."
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Page 197, restored song lyrics removed from Westbrook edition.
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Page 205, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version and changed "subtile" to "subtle."
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Page 210, restored poetry and related paragraph to end of chapter LV and restored chapter head poetry to chapter LVI.
Page 212, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 214, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version along with several song lyrics and accompanying text.
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Page 218, restored poetry cut from Westbrook edition.
Page 221, restored poetry and introductory text cut from Westbrook edition.
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Page 234, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 238, changed "you passage" to "your passage."
Page 239, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 240, added missing close quote after "fickle" and restored poetry cut from Westbrook edition.
Page 242, restored missing poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 244, restored poetry missing from Westbrook edition.
Page 252, restored chapter head poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 253, restored "Dark Eyes" poetry from Fireside Companion version.
Page 256, changed "you heart" to "your heart."
Back cover, changed "Barabara" to "Barbara"; changed "Heart's of Fire" to "Hearts of Fire"; changed "Gorvice" to "Garvice."; changed "Daphane's" to "Daphne's."; changed "Passions Slave" to "Passion's Slave."